Nov 18

Howdy!

Transfer calls were last night and my companion and I are staying in Bryan. It'll be nice to be with the people I know for the holidays but I have to say, I cannot believe that Thanksgiving is next week. It's so nice and warm here and the trees are still mostly green. It feels like School should be starting, not time for Christmas decorations.

President Pingree is the best mission president. We also had stake conference this weekend and it was also mostly focused on missionary work, so they had Pres. Pingree speak.  He tells crazy stories about how he teaches parts of the first lesson to people at Walmart and will go on walks with his wife to find people to teach the gospel to. The great part is that he makes it sound super easy and when you really think about it all your doing is telling people what you know to be true. I think that is one of the biggest things I've learned since I've been out - that missionary work, first off, isn't your work, its the Lord's and second, people want peace& happiness and that is what we are giving as missionaries. It's nice because most people here believe in God and they recognize His role in their lives so I often feel that I am learning from others more than I am teaching. 

Pres. Pingree is also great because he lets us listen to Disney music or any other music that doesn't distract from the Spirit. So we listen to a lot of movie instrumental music, the piano guys, Aladdin, Tangled, the Lion King, etc. Also, maybe you've already heard of this album, I think I told you about it... but its called Nearer: a collection of hymns or something like that...but it is the best church music I have ever heard. It is so good. I would highly suggest listening to it and I won't even suggest buying it because you'll probably want to after you listen to it. 

As of right now, we don't really have any new investigators officially but we have quite of few people who may become investigators. This ward is really taking the whole member missionary work to heart. Every time we go to dinner its seems like the members will talk about people who they want or have shared the gospel with. So I predict that things will start to really pick up even though things usually slow down this time of year (due to people being gone for the holidays). It is just so exciting to see everyone truly wanting to share the gospel. Its awesome! One of the recent converts we visit with, Abby, always has her nonmember friend over when we're there. They're both 13 so they're a little crazy but they are so great. Shelby is the nonmember friend and she always tries to answer questions in our lessons even though I don't think she knows what we're talking about (ex. priesthood, temple work). We waiting for Shelby to get permission for us to teach her the lessons but she's already learned a lot from the lessons we teach Abby.

That's funny that Harrison adds things to my letters. Just so everyone knows, I love Rachel and Christian too.

That's too bad that it is cold in Reno. Oh, speaking of Reno, there is a lady in my ward here that is moving to Reno and I think you should be her friend. She is sad because she really loves Texas so I've been trying to tell her all the great things about Reno. Its harder than it sounds. Anyway, she is super cool and has super cute kids. I think you would love her, so I'll get her email and number next time I visit her. Her name is Erin Silito.

I'm not sure what my favorite food is...mexican food is always a winner. We ended up having egg Mcmuffins because that is Sister Gregson's favorite food. Isn't that funny? They were pretty good.

I love you,

Sister Davis